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Job market reports · Skill · September 2026

ruby on rails

204 live US technical postings name ruby on rails in September 2026. Here is which roles ask for it, what those roles pay, and where they are.

Which roles ask for it

Share of the 204 postings naming ruby on rails that belong to each role. This is the answer to "what would learning this qualify me for".

  1. 1Software Engineer68.6%
  2. 2Full-Stack Engineer9.8%
  3. 3DevOps / SRE / Platform Engineer5.4%
  4. 4Frontend Engineer5.4%
  5. 5Backend Engineer4.4%
  6. 6AI Engineer2.5%
  7. 7Machine Learning Engineer2.5%
  8. 8Security Engineer1%

What postings asking for it pay

Across every role, for the postings that both name this skill and disclose a salary. A skill does not cause a salary — senior roles ask for more of everything — so read this as association, not as a raise.

Disclosed pay where ruby on rails is named
n = 154
10th
$140k
25th
$160k
Median
$195k
75th
$207k
90th
$242k

Where those jobs are

Metro share of the postings naming this skill.

  1. 1Remote26.5%
  2. 2San Francisco, CA22.5%
  3. 3New York, NY13.2%
  4. 4Austin, TX4.9%
  5. 5Chicago, IL2.9%
  6. 6Boston, MA2%
  7. 7Silicon Valley, CA2%
  8. 8Denver, CO1.5%

How we counted

668,970 live US postings read directly from 79,892 employers’ own careers pages in September 2026 — not from a jobs aggregator, so a role reposted across several sites is counted once. Full methodology, limitations and external checks.